Blink, the most convincing non-fiction book.
Millenium Challenge: a US wargame experiment.
Red Team headed by Paul Van Riper.
brief meetings.
limited communication.
no overloading the team with information.
promoted rapid cognition.
Blue Team headed by the US.
boasted of a database of 40,000 entries.
CROP ie. a huge screen showing field of combat.
experts from every US govt sector at their service.
connected to commanders of the four military services.


seems the blue team's got a pretty good advantage.


outcome of the experiment.
red team destroyed 13 blue warships.
and a significant portion of blue's navy.
blue team couldnt foresee nor preempt this and lost.


Van Riper comments.
blue team burdened with too much information.
overloaded blue team's decision makers.
encouraged red team's spontaneity by giving them space.
forced red team to think on their feet.


conclusion.
lots of information doesnt translate to apt decisions.
if you get too caught up in the synthesizing of information, you drown in the data.


to an apparent educater of whom my impression hasnt changed since the day of introduction.
do read Blink and gain yourself some insight.


you're just a sad song
with nothing to say
about a lifelong wait
for a hospital stay.

perfection at 6:44 AM